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At the beginning of the 1980s, a group of scholars met at the University of Delhi to reflect on the relationship between the West and the East. The collective created by the historian Ranajit Guha takes the name of Subaltern Studies, recalling the Gramscian theories on subordination. The analysis of the relationships of domination and subjection between settlers and colonized people is central to the development of new postcolonial theories.  The protagonists of this fervent debate do not circumscribe postcolonialism within precise geographical boundaries: the postcolonial condition is mainly ideological since it arises as a product of the historical relations and processes of colonization. Within Subaltern Studies, the scholar Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak questions the absence of the female subject in the discourse of her colleagues, asking a fundamental question for postcolonial theory and for feminist theory: "Can the subaltern speak?". The woman appears to be a ventriloquized subject and constantly represented and defined by the gaze of the other. Spivak focuses on the female subject's need for self-determination. The voice of the Indian philosopher is echoed by the Chicanas and African American feminists who from the United States demand a feminism that takes into account all the subalternities that act on the female body, first of all the race. The declination of the intersection between sex, race and class plays a central role in both postcolonial and feminist theory. In the present work we observe some moments of confrontation and encounter between feminism and postcolonialism, the main demands and the strategies of resistance used by the voices of the subalterns.

Although there is a social, formal and coercive coordination that requires the observance of the law, in the system of administration of justice the androcentric exegesis of the judges can often be appreciated. This normative system created, applied and interpreted from the traditional masculinity, categorizes by means of the right good women within the law, and bad women outside the law. The objective of this reflection is to prefigure guidelines to vindicate the dignity of women in access to justice as marginalized subjects due to the hetero-applicability of the patriarchal norm. The methodological aspect of this research is of a strictly documentary qualitative nature. Among the main findings of the present, it is found that feminism is an effective configuration of the theory of justice that responds to the needs of women according to their social contexts, and that furthermore, this action cannot be adjusted to a single universalist theory. of justice since there is no unambiguous category of woman. This in turn implies that, women have the prerogative to present the right to be bad women.

Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso, a philosopher, historian, politician, journalist, and writer, is one of the most relevant figures of the Italian Risorgimento in the political, social, and cultural panorama. Her work includes philosophical treaties, political and historical essays, literary texts, and numerous contributions published by French and Italian newspapers. She became an important figure who, in the 19th century, fought against social injustices, absolutist governments and gender inequalities. She was admired by both illustrious men and women of the time, becoming a role model who inscribed the New Woman ideal, proper of the Italian modern and progressist society of the time. This study is an analysis of her political and social compromise, her critical thinking, and her socialist and feminist ideals.  

The 18th century will be a crucial period in the women’s fight for the vindication of their rights. The revolutionary spirit of the Enlightenment had also penetrated them, who anxiously longed for the arrival of a definitive turn that would culminate in a radical transformation of society, where, finally, there would be room for both sexes on equal terms. However, the acclaimed proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, approved in Paris in 1789, above all expectations, will exclude them from the sphere of human rights. There were many reactions in Europe against such injustice, among them the publication, in Italy, in 1794, of the treatise Breve difesa dei diritti delle Donne, which we will give an account of in this article.

The neo-republicanism of Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit and Maurizio Viroli has the merit of having recovered the republican idea of ​​freedom to critically approach the different forms of domination that permeate contemporary democratic societies. However, in the first section, it is argued that such normative proposals make insufficient use of the critical reaches of republican freedom, because they only instrumentalize it to defend the freedoms of individuals, despite the fact that it also served the republicans of the past to raise the sovereignty of States in the field of international relations. Thus, in a second section, a vindication of republicanism is proposed as a useful political discourse to critically position itself in the face of the external domination suffered, above all, by peripheral states such as those in Latin America due to the conditionalities imposed by international financial organizations, multinational companies and states. hegemonic in the framework of the neoliberal globalization process of the last decades.

The Italian writers involved in the Women's Question, 14th-17th centuries, are a scarcely known link of feminist ideas both in the context of the Italian and European cultures, due to the lack of modern editions, critical studies, and translations. This article deals with some theoretical and textual issues related to this philosophical-literary debate, taking into consideration a global perspective that includes both women and men writers. It also presents a bibliographical review of the studies that have been carried out on this subject internationally from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present day, in which the plurality of approaches and the evolution of this field of study, which is still under construction, can be appreciated.

The text addresses the problem of the content of the common in the reflection and practice (praxis) of the philosophies, ethics and rights of liberation. It takes a critical distance with the discursive approaches of a certain bourgeois idealist drift. The possibilities of Marxist cultural materialism are offered. The structural dysnamism of the system of needs/capabilities is presented as an intercultural or transcultural constant

Lodovico Dolce (1508/ 1510-1568), a humanist and scholar of the 16th century, was among the intellectuals involved in the Querelle des Femmes, during the Renaissance period. His treatise Dialogo di M. Lodovico Dolce della institution delle donne secondo li tre stati, che cadono nella vita humana represents precisely this context. The purpose of this article is, on one hand, to examine and highlight Dolce’s argumentation on the “institution della maritata” set out in the second book of the Dialogo; on the other hand, its aim is to present the suggested female profile and the virtues that a married woman should have in the 16th century society.

El presente artículo nos muestra las características de la enseñanza del Derecho Civil Romano en la Isla de Cuba en la época del dominio colonial español. En él se hace un pormenorizado análisis histórico de las instituciones educativas donde se estudió la carrera de Jurisprudencia en Cuba, desde la fundación de su primera Universidad en el año de 1728, sus planes de estudios, textos y autores utilizados. El trabajo pone de manifiesto, no sólo el estricto control que las autoridades coloniales ejercían sobre la enseñanza de esta carrera, sino también la intervención activa de una serie de intelectuales criollos en la transformación del estado de cosas acorde con los nuevos aires de la ilustración. Particularmente en la enseñanza del Derecho Romano, estas transformaciones se expresaron en dotar de un mayor protagonismo al Derecho Patrio como el derecho que propiamente se aplicaba en los tribunales de Justicia. Se destacan también la traducción al castellano de diversas fuentes y obras del Derecho de Justiniano y su uso académico.

In this paper we analyse the historical evolution of intestate succession, starting from the first known testimonies in Roman Law in the decennial legislation, with important legislative oscillations, since male children were more privileged than female children, in a notoriously discriminatory situation. In accordance with the nature and inspiration of Christianity, gender equality was legally established in the post-classical period, and culminated in the time of Justinian, as we can see in Novel 118, year 543. In the subsequent centuries of the Middle Ages, this approach to succession was not taken up, nor was full equality applied in this historical period in the legislation and doctrine of the late Middle Ages, thus perpetuating it during the Modern Age, until the arrival of the Napoleonic codification